30 Linux Commands I Use Every Day as a Developer The exact commands I run on my VPS every single day. File Operations # Find files by name find . -name "*.js" -not -path "*/node_modules/*" # Find files modified recently (last 7 days) find . -mtime -7 -type f # Find large files (>100MB) find /var/log -size +100M # Search file contents grep -r "TODO" src/ --include = "*.js" -n # Better grep with ripgrep (rg) rg "functionName" --type js --context 2 # Quick file preview head -n 20 app.js # First 20 lines tail -f /var/log/nginx.log # Follow log live tail -n 50 error.log # Last 50 lines wc -l * .js # Line counts Enter fullscreen mode Exit fullscreen mode Disk & Memory # Disk usage overview df -h # Directory sizes (sorted) du -sh * | sort -hr # What's eating disk space?…